Beinecke MS 480               Mexico [?], s. XVI
Gradual

ff. 1r-126r  [Title page, f. 1r:]  Dominica 2^^a post pascha ad missam
Introitus.  [text:]  Misericordia domini plena est terra...et omnem saporem
suauitatis.  f. 126v blank

     Gradual, with masses from the second Sunday after Easter through the 13th
Sunday after Pentecost, omitting Ascension and Pentecost; ff. 92v-93r and 115r
blank without interruption of text

     Parchment, ff. i (paper board) + 126 + i (paper board), 674 x 519 (565 x 360)
mm., trimmed.  Written in 5 lines and staves, ruled in hard point.  Double
vertical bounding lines, full length.  Prickings in upper and lower margins.
     I-XVIII^^6, XIX^^4, XX^^6 ( + 1 leaf after 2, f. 115), XXI^^6 ( + 1 leaf at end, f.
126).  Each bifolium is sewn together from 2 leaves, then sewn into quire.
     Written by one scribe in round liturgical gothic script.
     Initial on f. 1v (2 lines + 2 staves high) made of cadeaux, with gold paint
sloppily applied.  Other initials 1 line + 1 staff, same style, in black or red,
with or without gold.  Square notes on 5-line red staves.  Headings in red.
     Water has caused red ink to run on many folios; no loss of text.  Some
repairs in margins with pieces of coarse parchment.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Half bound in brown calf, gold-tooled, with blue cloth
sides.

Written probably in the 16th century, perhaps in Mexico, where it was located
by 1580; note in red cursive highlighted with gold (written by a contemporary
hand) appears on title page (f. 1r):  "Convento de San Francisco.  Mexico.  de
ano 1580."  Library of the Rev. John Wright (bookplate).  Deposited at Yale
by Henry R. Wagner in 1912.

Barbara A. Shailor